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by n8cpdx 5y ago
I can’t think of any reason not to use Slack exclusively as a website. I’ve been doing it for years now, and it’s a better experience IMO. For Teams, the only disadvantage is you can’t share your screen and video simultaneously when running
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
No, I’m saying if you have 10 hours to do something that can be done in 5, but is optimally done in 6.5, take 6.5 hours and use the remaining 3.5 to do something useful. Maybe you’ll go on a sightseeing tour at your destination; maybe you’l
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
Shouldn’t you plan to get the job done as quickly as you can while meeting quality expectations? If I have 10 hours to make a car trip, but it only takes 5, I don’t drive at half the speed limit. Sure, there may be some extra bathroom and s
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
Who is the Creator’s creator? If you can accept that the Creator came into being and created the universe, you can skip a step and just say the universe came into being.
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
Some of us have seen the exorbitant damage bad unions can cause, for example ILWU destroying Portland, OR’s container shipping industry in a bid to steal two jobs from another union. https://www.universalcargo.com/jury-hits-
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
Uncomfortable questions indeed. It is honestly hard to comprehend how people believe in it at all. I understand that people do, but it’s mystifying, like a belief in god or even Santa Claus. Regardless, justice systems (incentives and accou
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
It is ok to have critical thinking. Especially after the experts have shown time and again that they aren’t great at making sociopolitical choices. The experts were telling you not to wear masks in March and not to get booster shots in Augu
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
My group just hired our first .NET dev in years after many interviews. Maybe they’re all working for the big banks. Or maybe all the .NET engineers realized they’re underpaid and have learned other technologies. My own experience is that ou
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
*Entertaining meat bags who throw a fit at the first hint of prices rising in response to demand. Perhaps if the gamers wouldn’t jump to calling any price increase over an MSRP defined in 2019 “gouging”, there would be some incentive to pri
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
This is wrong. In the west, and much of the developing world now, reproduction is below replacement rate. https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/fert... https://www.nytimes.com&#x2
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
I don’t really care about the assertion you’re trying to refute, but that’s the same US government that destroyed Iran’s centrifuges through software. You can’t really look at such a large organization and treat it as uniformly competent&#x
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
They’ve actively gotten worse. I should have clarified that my “I remember when” comment applied to 5 years ago, not 15. Reverse progress on that timescale just isn’t acceptable IMO. MAUI is supposed to fix it, but I’m not sure they’ll have
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
Same could be said for Mac or Linux development, but those ecosystems have continued to evolve, and the modern approaches to things can generally be taken seriously (unlike WinRT/UWP/WinUI2/WinUI3). It’s worth meditating on h
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
Try programming for Xamarin, UWP, or anything involving multitargeting. The list of actions for which closing visual studio, deleting a bunch of random folders, and restarting is long. Unfortunately it includes any changes to project files,
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
I can’t share a whole lot, mainly because I don’t know much myself. In the pre-COVID days, before I stopped going to parties, then blew up my life and moved to another city (thus not having a social network to attend parties with) there wer
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
The endless discussion of pros and cons of Linux desktop and whether this is the year get tiring. Only so much can be said. It’s definitely getting closer and for a lot of setups is perfectly serviceable, but for business and ecosystem reas
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
The big clue is that you could swap out books/reading/learning for videogames/watching/playing/learning or TikToks/watching/making, or LEGO/building/designing, or any other hobby and the article
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
You can rent a car anytime you want to go on a longer excursion. It is far harder to rent walkability or access to amenities. You can’t rent “my children can walk to school and I can walk to pick them up for lunch” nearly as easily. Nor can
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
What about the older children makes them car-dependent? Don’t you worry they’ll miss out on the cultural richness of the city? I grew up in the car-dependent village lifestyle (albeit in the US, which is surely less livable than the Europea
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
Diabetes is measurable through blood sugar, insulin, a1c, and other direct chemical tests. It is easily treated (to maintain blood sugar, not cure, unfortunately) through direct chemical application (insulin). Depression can’t easily be mea
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
It’s amazing how the media can be manipulated so easily. NFTs weren’t really a thing until someone did a media splash (some random artist). From a splash it turned into a story. Then the old non-tech people get scared/FOMO, so they of
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
Similar to other commenters, I came here in anger. Google has fucked it’s users, it’s developers, and the broader ecosystem with its handling of AR. Google’s engineers should be embarrassed, and the executive teams who suddenly are pretendi
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
Not just forgotten, deprecated with no notice after my team built our product with a dependency on it. You might say, “why would you be so stupid to build your AR product on top of Google’s primary, supported, promoted, first-class way of d
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
It’s an interesting framing overall, but I’m not really convinced that the R/E distinction is as clear in real life. The key attribute that both R and E types here seem to share is _caring_ and a commitment to a larger team goal/o
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
Crime stats are often on a delay. I occasionally see people in Portland cite 2019’s crime stats as proof that things are fine and that you’re just bigoted against homeless people or whatever. Portland didn’t get the 2020 numbers from the FB
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
So many of the things in this comment section are things that were solved by Zune very well (e.g. the social features were great, if you knew anyone else who used Zune - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zune_Social ) Zun
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
I co-sign everything here. Work with WPF as my day job (which I happen to love; great team, great company, great gig, not so great UI framework dependencies) so I feel the pain points daily. MVVM is just hard to reason about and debug, espe
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
Drivers for certain hardware is still a huge issue. I have hardware that I just won’t attempt to install Linux on because devs don’t think exotic setups (like Intel integrated graphics AND an nvidia GPU) are worth supporting. But everything
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
I put music I like in playlists that I listen to in reverse order by date added. As a result, I form pretty strong associations between my playlist songs and times in my life, down to about the week. It’s pretty cool being able to scroll th
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
I keep seeing violent criminals let out to repeatedly victimize my fellow community members. No jail. No prison. I see people showing up dead who have booking photos (aka in hindsight, should have been imprisoned for their own safety). Abou

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